Guardian of Time. Yeah. He doesn't respond to it aloud, but there's a faint flicker in his expression, a hint of a sardonic smirk that's gone in a moment. In his experience, people who call themselves Guardians of Time or something similar are usually more dangerous than anything else. The Time Agency. The Time Lords themselves, especially towards the end...
The Doctor, of course, doesn't think to stick himself in that category, though he may well fit there just as well as any Celestial Intervention agent.
He almost groans at that explanation of what the watch is, and he does wince a little. That's exactly the explanation a chameleon arch tends to feed into a personality it creates, as a reason to keep the watch around, and he doesn't think he could deal with this man turning out to be a Time Lord, never mind the whole separate problem of which one. And the way he barely seemed to notice it before the Doctor mentioned it...
"And I suppose it's broken, too. Doesn't open anymore, maybe?" He manages to make it sound like an innocent question. Mostly. No abrupt subject change and sudden interest is going to sound entirely innocent, but there's not much he can do about that.
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The Doctor, of course, doesn't think to stick himself in that category, though he may well fit there just as well as any Celestial Intervention agent.
He almost groans at that explanation of what the watch is, and he does wince a little. That's exactly the explanation a chameleon arch tends to feed into a personality it creates, as a reason to keep the watch around, and he doesn't think he could deal with this man turning out to be a Time Lord, never mind the whole separate problem of which one. And the way he barely seemed to notice it before the Doctor mentioned it...
"And I suppose it's broken, too. Doesn't open anymore, maybe?" He manages to make it sound like an innocent question. Mostly. No abrupt subject change and sudden interest is going to sound entirely innocent, but there's not much he can do about that.